Farm bill still languishes in House

How dysfunctional is the House of Representatives? This dysfunctional, and it's not even about the fiscal cliff curb. For months and months, House Speaker John Boehner has refused to bring the farm bill to the floor for a vote, held hostage by his caucus that has been locked in a battle over how much food stamp recipients should be punished. For the first time in modern history, the House is poised to fail on a farm bill.

It's so bad that House Agriculture Committee Chair Frank Lucas (R-OK) has negotiated his own agreement, apart from leadership, with Senate Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to try to stave off the worst impact of a failed farm bill by extending the current bill and replace dairy programs that expire with the end of 2012. Without some replacement for those dairy programs, the law reverts to a decades-old formula that could result in milk prices tripling within weeks. And yet:

[T]he House GOP has yet to endorse the committees' extension agreement, and leaders are also considering two narrower extension bills: a one-month extension and an even smaller bill that would merely extend dairy policy. As of Sunday night, Republican leaders had not scheduled a vote on any of them.[...]

A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday that Republican leaders had not decided how they would proceed on the farm extension, though a vote could come as soon as Monday.

The fight over the farm bill, and specifically milk price supports, reflects larger problems Boehner is having with his caucus. Boehner and Lucas are in all-out public war over the program Lucas has come up with for fixing the dairy issue.

The sparring between the two men continued in a meeting of the full GOP conference Sunday night, where Boehner again laced into the dairy program. But Lucas — the traditional “good soldier” for his party—held his ground. And the back-and-forth illustrates the problems facing the GOP as it tries to untangle itself from the milk crisis brought on in large part because of Boehner’s refusal to allow floor debate in this Congress on a full-scale, five-year farm bill.

“We need to take positive action to put this issue to rest,” Lucas told reporters.“And make sure that it is clear to everybody in this country that the farm bill policy has certainty and we will not have eight- or nine-dollar milk.”

If we have $8 or $9/gallon milk, that's John Boehner's fault, just to be clear. It'll be a great thing to wash austerity down with.

How dysfunctional is the House of Representatives? This dysfunctional, and it's not even about the fiscal cliff curb. For months and months, House Speaker John Boehner has refused to bring the farm bill to the floor for a vote, held hostage by his caucus that has been locked in a battle over how much food stamp recipients should be punished. For the first time in modern history, the House is poised to fail on a farm bill.It's so bad that House Agriculture Committee Chair Frank Lucas (R-OK) has negotiated his own agreement, apart from leadership, with Senate Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to try to stave off the worst impact of a failed farm bill by extending the current bill and replace dairy programs that expire with the end of 2012. Without some replacement for those dairy programs, the law reverts to a decades-old formula that could result in milk prices tripling within weeks. And yet:[T]he House GOP has yet to endorse the committees' extension agreement, and leaders are also considering two narrower extension bills: a one-month extension and an even smaller bill that would merely extend dairy policy. As of Sunday night, Republican leaders had not scheduled a vote on any of them.[...]A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday that Republican leaders had not decided how they would proceed on the farm extension, though a vote could come as soon as Monday.The fight over the farm bill, and specifically milk price supports, reflects larger problems Boehner is having with his caucus. Boehner and Lucas are in all-out public war over the program Lucas has come up with for fixing the dairy issue.The sparring between the two men continued in a meeting of the full GOP conference Sunday night, where Boehner again laced into the dairy program. But Lucas — the traditional “good soldier” for his party—held his ground. And the back-and-forth illustrates the problems facing the GOP as it tries to untangle itself from the milk crisis brought on in large part because of Boehner’s refusal to allow floor debate in this Congress on a full-scale, five-year farm bill.“We need to take positive action to put this issue to rest,” Lucas told reporters.“And make sure that it is clear to everybody in this country that the farm bill policy has certainty and we will not have eight- or nine-dollar milk.”If we have $8 or $9/gallon milk, that's John Boehner's fault, just to be clear. It'll be a great thing to wash austerity down with.

There is plenty of blame to go around. I don't think Harry Reid in the Senate brought the House's budget bills to the floor for a vote either. How many budgets have been passed these past 4 years? If you said zero, you would be right.

Of those Ignorant Sheeple that are not 100% Dependent on their Neighbors wealth/labor to sustain them (The Demokrat's who vote Demokrat because Mommy voted Demokrat), about 1/2 woke up this morning and are heading to their jobs at the Landfill/Sewage Treatment Plants knowing that THEIR Messiah just raised THEIR "Middle Class"(gag) Taxes!

77% of Americans are paying higher taxes this morning.......Gosh Stealing from the EVIL Rich by the force of law means that the Plantation Masters can steal from the "Middle Class" (gag) too?

I am shocked, shocked I tell you!

Whood'a Thunk It!

(By the Way)

I am not the big kid on that playground where you were beaten because you had it coming.

YOU do not need to expose your Small Dyck issues here now that you have left the Playground.

There are "Places" for you in the World, and if you would wait until Medication Time before post, you would be much more comfortable in that "Place" that Society put you to protect Society from you.

YOU will always be wrong. YOU have no Hope except a Merciful God.

Start working on the Redemption YOU need before you face the Wrath you deserve.

There are some bad numbers being thrown around this morning.Someone has repeatedly stated that 4/5's of Americans did not vote for Obama. Like any good lie it has a grain of truth.65,455,010 - Votes cast for Obama311,591,917 - Total population of the USAApparently this poster believes every person counted in a census (children, felons, etc) is an eligible voter.If you feel the need to blur truth in this way there is probably something wrong with your position. i.e.-Irish

Defective,

Those darn "Facts" just seem to keep getting in the way of what you NEED to feel

4/5 ths of Americans did not vote for your Messiah.This HUGE Majority of Americans did NOT give the Son of Communists hired by the Chicago Mob a Mandate.

This HUGE Majority of Americans, regardless of their age, or rights to vote, live in America and their lives are just as degraded by the scumbags you Sheeple elected as any other American. Every child born in America now shares a larger burden of Debt that has criminally increased under the Dictatorship of your Messiah.

The Problem is not the Chicago Mob, the Son of Communists they hired to Occupy the White House, or even Ignorant Dependents like you that are to selfish and stupid to care that your desires of today are fauching over the future of the Republic and its children.

The problem is that "We the People" allowed you defectives to "feel" that YOU have rights to a life at the expense of your neighbors and thier children, and then WE allow you to vote.

You Sheeple on the Plantation should be offered a choice; Be Responsible and Free and enjoy the Rights this bestows, or be Dependent and accept the slop we put in your Trough. Since it is clear that you Sheeple will greedily sacrifice the future of yours and our children to fill your belly today, you need to be minimized. T this starts with "We the People" restricting the Right to Vote that we gave you.

So what are your parameters for people that should be allowed to vote?

My Bad......The single most important Rule Change;

If you are a Dependent with a Government Job (Teacher, School Administrator, ALL Bureaucrats, Cop, Fireman, Lawyer Judge, Prosecutor, Jailer, Victim Advocate, Social Services Leech, EPA Nazi, the list is endless) you have "Chosen".

If you chose a Life of Dependency to be sustained by the capture of your Neighbors Wealth by the Power of the State, NO VOTE!

As a poster that is either intoxicated or under medicated, why does it not bother you to come on here and post nothing but your "Projections" to other posters?

Everybody here knows how fauched up you are as a Defective Human Being. How come you and your Multiple Personalities are the only ones that consistently avoid ANY conversation that Threads are based on, and simply "work out your Mommy and Daddy issues" with strangers by "Projecting" yourself onto them with the variety of abuses you employ like a child on the Playground?

Do you "Feel" that nobody really knows what you are?

Your dangerous nature as a Psychopath needs to be addressed by Law Enforcement Professionals before you hurt others that may have the displeasure of contact with you outside your Fantasy World on Topix!

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